Festipedia:Community

MAJOR UPGRADE - 2 August 2010

Festipedia has moved to www.festipedia.org.uk. Links to our old address will continue to work but please amend them to point to the new address.

Festipedia now uses MediaWiki 1.16.0. Compared to FestWiki, the major changes are:

• improved performance
• improved reliability
• better protection against abuse
• support for SVG images
• the ability to upload PDF files
• the ability to upload short sound and video clips in OGG format
• support for timeline images
• a number of additional special pages
• the Wiki namespace is now the Festipedia namespace
• the Wiki_talk namespace is now the Festipedia_talk namespace
• similarly the FestWiki and FestWiki_talk namespaces have been renamed as MediaWiki and MediaWiki_talk
• the preferred name for the Image and Image_talk namespaces is now File and File_talk
• Special:Ancientpages now shows a list of pages which haven't been edited for a long time - it used to show a list of the oldest pages based on creation date
• additional parser functions
• additional user options
• deleted pages and images can be restored

Our Help system will eventually be updated to document all of these changes.

MediaWiki supports extensions in order to allow for enhanced functionality. At the time of writing the list of extensions on Festipedia is a subset of those on WikiPedia. The missing extensions are:

• Special pages
  • Central Auth - not applicable to Festipedia
  • Collection - create books
  • Cross-namespace links - inactive on Wikipedia and doesn't seem terribly useful
  • Flagged Revisions - allows new versions of pages to be reviewed prior to display
  • Global Usage - not applicable to Festipedia
  • Merge Account - not applicable to Festipedia
  • OAIRepository - mainly used to keep the search index up to date on the fly; we rebuild the index nightly
  • Oversight - hide individual revisions of a page
  • SiteMatrix - not applicable to Festipedia
• Parser hooks
  • InputBox - allows input forms to be included on a page
  • WikiHiero - allows display of hieroglyphics
• Other
  • Abuse Filter - allows setting up of rules for filtering new edits
  • AntiBot - anti-spam framework (poorly documented)
  • AntiSpoof - blocks creation of user accounts with mixed script, confusing and similar usernames
  • AssertEdit - supports assertions for use by bots
  • CentralNotice - display a site notice
  • DismissableSiteNotice - allow users to close the site notice
  • Gadgets - allow users to select custom gadgets
  • GlobalBlocking - not applicable to Festipedia
  • LocalisationUpdate - keep localised messages up to date
  • OpenSearchXml - enable search suggestions in OpenSearch XML format
  • PrefStats - not applicable to Festipedia
  • PrefSwitch - not documented
  • SecurePoll - elections and surveys
  • Title Blacklist - block creation of certain pages using a blacklist
  • TitleKey - title prefix search suggestions
  • TorBlock - allows blocking of tor exit nodes
  • TrustedXFF - support a list of trusted proxy addresses
  • UploadBlacklist - block upload of certain files using a blacklist
  • User Daily Contributions - not applicable to Festipedia
  • Wikimedia Messages - not applicable to Festipedia

If you think we should install any of these extensions let us know by posting a message on Festipedia_talk:Community.

See this page "Discussion" area for status on items below

• Insert appropriate image copyright tags for all existing images
• Add more redirect pages to make it easier for misspelt/miscapitalised links to end up at the right target
• Move existing pages to new titles where appropriate, particularly where the new software allows the page title to be correctly capitalised
• Cite references on existing pages
• Rework the Help pages - they were written by the developer who is, perhaps, a little too close to the software (and has spent too much time reading Wikipedia's help). It would also be good to update the examples, some of which are borrowed from Wikipedia help.
• Add anything missing to the help pages
• Produce some lightweight policies and procedures
• Write a style guide
• Find someone to look after the community portal!